18th-century French dramatists and playwrights

Jean-François Collin d'Harleville (30 May 1755 – 24 February 1806) was a French dramatist.

Sylvain Maréchal (15 August 1750 – 18 January 1803) was a French essayist, poet, philosopher, and, as a political theorist, precursor of utopian socialism and communism (his views on a Golden age society are occasionally described also as utopian anarchism).

Jean Galbert de Campistron (3 August 1656 – 11 May 1723) was a French dramatist.

François-Antoine Jolly (25 December 1662 in Paris – 30 July 1753) was an 18th-century French playwright and librettist.

Anne-Marie Fiquet du Boccage, née Le Page, (22 October 1710 – 8 August 1802) was an 18th-century French female writer, poet, letter-writer and playwright.

Anne-Pierre-Jacques de Vismes, or Devismes, (1745, Paris – 1819, Caudebec-en-Caux) was an 18th–19th-century French man of letters and musicographer.

Marie-Joseph Blaise de Chénier (11 February 1764 – 10 January 1811) was a French poet, dramatist and politician of French and Greek origin.

Pierre-René Lemonnier (1731, Paris – 8 January 1796, Metz) was an 18th-century French playwright and librettist.

Jean-Baptiste Rousseau (6 April 1671 – 17 March 1741) was a French playwright and poet, particularly noted for his short cynical epigrams.

Jean-Louis Laya (4 December 1761, Paris – 25 August 1833, Meudon) was a French playwright.

Auguste Lafortelle called A.

Louis-Jean-Baptiste-Étienne Vigée (2 December 1758 – 8 August 1820) was a French playwright and man of letters.

Claude Joseph Dorat (31 December 1734 – 29 April 1780) was a French writer, also known as Le Chevalier Dorat.

Daniel-Paul Chappuzeau de Baugé, born in Lyon – died ca.

Pierre-Jean-Baptiste Choudard, known under the pen name of Desforges, (15 September 1746 – 13 August 1806) was a French actor, dramatist, librettist and man of letters.

Jean-Baptiste Radet (20 January 1752, Dijon - 17 March 1830, Paris) was a French vaudevillist.

Jean-Baptiste Gabriel Marie de Milcent (28 June 1747, Paris 1833, Paris) was a French playwright and journalist.

Jean-François-Henri Collot (Pont-d’Arches, near Charleville-Mézières 26 January 1716 – October 1804 in Mesnil, near Châlons-sur-Marne) was an 18th-century French homme de lettres and encyclopédiste.

Jean-François Duplat de Monticourt (1710 or 1711 – 4 August 1772 in Grenoble) was an 18th-century French opera librettist.

Jean-François de Bastide (15 July 1724, Marseille – 4 July 1798, Milan aged 73) was an 18th-century French writer and playwright.

Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Junbient Philadelphe Regnault-Warin (28 Decembrer 1773, Bar-le-Duc – 4 November 1844, Paris) was an 18th–19th-century French novelist, playwright and pamphleteer.

Jean-Louis Brousse-Desfaucherets (1742, Paris – 18 February 1808, Paris), was a French playwright and administrator.

Jean-Élie Bédéno Dejaure (1766, Paris – 5 October 1799) was an 18th-century French playwright.

Jean Baudrais (14 August 1749, Tours – 4 May 1832, Bicêtre from cholera) was an 18th–19th-century French writer and magistrate.

Jean Castaing (1723, Alençon – March 1805, Alençon) was an 18th-century French poet, playwright and printer.

Jean de La Chapelle (24 October 1651 – 29 May 1723) was a French writer and dramatist.

Joseph Aurèle Charles de Bossi (15 November 1758 – 20 January 1824) was a French politician and poet.

Joseph Aude (10 December 1755 – 5 October 1841) was a familiar of Necker and Buffon whose biography he wrote as well as a comédie en vaudeville about his marriage, presented at the Société littéraire et scientifique d'Apt.

Louis-Joseph Lavallée marquis de Boisrobert, called Joseph Lavallée (23 August 1747, Dieppe – 28 February 1816, London) was an 18th–19th-century French polygraph and man of letters.

Joseph Patrat or Patras (7 May 1733, Arles - 4 June 1801, Paris) was a French actor and plawright.

Joseph de La Font (sometimes spelled Lafont) was an 18th-century French playwright born in 1686 and died in Passy 20 March 1725.

Joseph Alexandre Pierre, vicomte de Ségur (14 April 1756 - 27 July 1805) was a French poet, songwriter and playwright.

Louis de Cahusac (6 April 1706 – 22 June 1759) was an 18th-century French playwright and librettist, and Freemason, most famous for his work with the composer Jean-Philippe Rameau.

Louis Anseaume (1721 – 7 July 1784, Paris) was a French playwright and librettist.

Jean-Baptiste-Denis Despré (24 June 1752, Dijon – 2 March 1832, Paris) was a French playwright, librettist, journalist, and translator.

Étienne-Auguste Dossion (9 August 1770 – 3 October 1832) was a French playwright and poet.

François-Benoît Hoffman (11 July 1760 – 25 April 1828) was a French playwright and critic, best known today for his operatic librettos, including those set to music by Étienne Méhul and Luigi Cherubini (most notably Cherubini's Médée, 1797).

Honoré-Nicolas-Marie Duveyrier (6 December 1753 – 25 May 1839) was an 18th–19th-century French lawyer, politician and playwright.

Paul Landois was an 18th-century French playwright.

Alexandre Leblanc de Ferrière, died after 1845, was an 18th–19th-century French playwright, journalist, printer, publisher and writer.

Sewrin, real name Charles-Augustin Bassompierre, (9 October 1771 – 22 April 1853 ) was a French playwright and goguettier.

Arnaud Berquin (September 1747 in Bordeaux – 21 December 1791) was a French children's author.

Charles-Antoine Leclerc de La Bruère (1716, Crépy-en-Valois – 18 September 1754, Rome) was an 18th-century French historian and diplomat.

François Marcellin Bernard-Valville (6 February 1767 – 15 October 1828) was an 18th/19th-century French playwright and librettist.

Louis Abel Beffroy de Reigny (pronounced: [lwi abɛl bɛfʁwa də ʁɛɲi]) (November 6, 1757 – December 17, 1811), was a French dramatist and man of letters.

Charles-Hugues Le Febvre de Saint-Marc (22 June 1698 – 20 Novembre 1769) was an 18th-century French playwright and homme de lettres.

Thomas-Simon Gueullette (2 June 1683 - 2 December 1766) was a French lawyer, playwright, scholar and man of letters, who also wrote fairy tales and works on the theatre itself.

Toussaint-Gaspard Taconet (July 1730 –– 29 December 1774) was an 18th-century French comic actor, the main character in Jean-Baptiste Nicolet's plays.

Louis de Boissy (26 November 1694, Vic-sur-Cère – 19 April 1758, Paris) was an 18th-century French poet and playwright.

Dufresny was born in Paris.

Jean (or Joseph)-Michel-Pascal Buhan (17 April 1770 – 24 February 1822) was an 18th-century French lawyer, poet, polemist and playwright.

Noël Aubin (Tours, 23 December 1754 – Tours, 18 August 1835) was an 18th/19th-century French bookseller-publisher and playwright.

Alphonse-Marie-Denis de Vismes (or Devismes), called Saint-Alphonse, (1746 in Paris – 18 May 1792, id.) was an 18th-century French playwright et librettist.

Anne-Hyacinthe de Saint-Léger de Colleville (26 March 1761 – 18 November 1824) was a French novelist and dramatist.

Antoine-François Riccoboni (1707 – 15 May 1772) was an Italian actor of the Comédie-Italienne in Paris, whose stage name was Lélio fils.

Antoine Gilbert Griffet de Labaume (21 November 1756, Moulins – 18 March 1805) was an 18th-century French writer, playwright and translator.

Antoine Jean Sticotti, called Toni or Fabio, (1715–1772) was an 18th-century French comedian and playwright born in the Friuli area of Northern Italy.

Antoine-François Le Bailly (or Lebailly), (1 April 1756, Caen – 13 January 1832, Paris) was a French librettist and fabulist.

Auguste-Jacques Lemierre d'Argy (1 March 1762, Paris – 12 December 1815, Paris) was an 18th–19th-century French writer and translator.

Barnabé Farmian Durosoy, (1745 – 25 August 1792, Paris) was an 18th-century French journalist and man of letters, both a plyawright, poet, novelist, historian and essayist.

Barthélemy Imbert (16 March 1747 – 23 August 1790) was an 18th-century French playwright, poet and novelist.

Benoît-Joseph Marsollier (also known as Benoît-Joseph Marsollier des Vivetières, (Paris, 1750 – Versailles, 22 April 1817) was a French playwright and librettist. He is particularly noted for his work in opéra comique. In 1780 he also led the first exploration of the Grotte des Demoiselles. His librettos include Nina, L'irato, and Les deux petits savoyards.

Borel (18th-century, Rouen – ? ) was an 18th-century French playwright from Normandy.

Charles-Claude Genest (17 October 1639 – 19 November 1719) was a French clergyman, poet and playwright.

Charles-Albert Demoustier (13 March 1760 – 2 March 1801) was a French writer.

Charles-Étienne Pesselier (9 July 1712, Paris – 25 August 1763, Paris aged 52) was an 18th-century French playwright and librettist.

Chrétien-Siméon Le Prévost d’Iray (13 June 1768 – 15 September 1849) was a French writer of comedies and vaudevilles.

Born at the château de Voisenon near Melun, he was only ten when he addressed an epistle in verse to Voltaire, who asked the boy to visit him.

François-Antoine Devaux (12 December 1712, Lunéville - 11 April 1796, or 22 germinal year IV, Lunéville) was a Lorraine (and, after 1766, French) poet and man of letters.

François-Louis Gand Le Bland Du Roullet (10 April 1716 in Normanville – 2 August 1786 in Paris) was a French diplomat and playwright.

Françoise-Nicole Gravillon, wife Hus, was an 18th-century French actress and playwright born 2 Octobre 1710 in Lyon.

Georges-Louis-Jacques Labiche (26 October 1772 – 21 May 1853), better known as Georges Duval, was an early 19th-century French playwright.

Harny de Guerville was an 18th-century French playwright.

Louis-François Ribié (Paris, 1758 – Martinique, 1830), also known as César Ribié, was a French actor and theatre manager.

Louis-François Faur (24 August 1746 – 1829) was a French librettist, playwright and man of letters.

Louis-Claude Chéron de La Bruyère (28 October 1758, Paris – 13 November 1807, Poitiers aged 49) was a French politician, playwright and translator.

Louis-Pierre-Pantaléon Resnier (23 November 1759 in Paris where he died 8 October 1807) was a French playwright, literary critic and politician.

Léonor-Jean-Christin Soulas d'Allainval, called abbé d'Allainval, (c. 1700, Chartres – 2 May 1753, Hôtel-Dieu de Paris) was an 18th-century French playwright.

Marc-Antoine Legrand or Le Grand (30 January 1673, Paris – 7 January 1728) was a 17th–18th-century French actor and playwright.

François-Marie Mayeur, called Mayeur de Saint-Paul, (6 June 1758, Paris – 18 December 1818, Paris) was an 18th–19h-century French actor, playwright and theatre director.

Nicolas-Médard Audinot (also Odinot, Oudinot (7 June 1732, Paris – 21 May 1801) was a French actor, singer, impresario, and puppeteer. He first played at the Comédie Italienne. In 1762, he set up a puppetter theatre at foire Saint-Germain where each character was an imitation of an actor of the Comédie-Italienne. His wood comedians attracted the crowd, and soon Audinot founded the Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique where he substituted children to puppets. In 1772, he presented grand pantomimes which made his fortune.

Nicolas Boindin (29 May 1676 – 30 November 1751) was an 18th-century French writer and playwright.

Nicolas-Thomas Barthe (1734, Marseille – 17 June 1785, Paris) was an 18th-century French poet and playwright.

Pierre-Remy-Antoine-Guillaume Guéroult, called "Guéroult jeune", (16 January 1749, Rouen – 14 Décember 1816) was an 18th–19th-century French scholar.

Pierre-Antoine de La Place (1 March 1707, Calais – 14 May 1793, Paris) was an 18th-century French writer and playwright, the first translator of Shakespeare into French.

Pierre-Augustin Lefèvre de Marcouville, called Marcouville, (28 October 1723 – 1790) was an 18th-century French lawyer and playwright.

Pierre-François Godard de Beauchamps, born in 1689 in Paris, where he died on March 12, 1761, was a playwright, theater historian, libertine novelist and French translator.

Pierre-Nicolas André called de Murville, (1754 1815) was an 18th–19th-century French poet and playwright.

Pierre Paul Gobet, called Dorfeuille, born circa 1745 and died circa 1806, was a French actor and playwright.

Pierre Laujon (13 January 1727 – 13 July 1811) was a French playwright and chansonnier.

Pierre Légier (1734, Jussey – 7 January 1791, ibid) ) was an 18th-century French writer, librettist, jurist and mayor.

Pierre Antoine Jean-Baptiste Villiers (10 March 1760 – Paris, 21 July 1849) was a French playwright, journalist and poet.

Pierre de La Montagne (1755, Langon c.1825) was an 18th–19th-century French playwright, poet and translator.

Claude-Ferdinand Guillemay du Chesnay, better known as Rosidor fils, (c.1660 – after 1718) was an 17th-18th century French playwright and actor.